Professor Rebecca Langlands

Head of Department

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Overview

Rebecca Langlands is Professor of Classics, with particular interests in Latin literature and Roman culture, ethics and exemplarity, the history of sexuality and classical reception. She is the author of Sexual Morality in Ancient Rome (CUP 2006), Sex, Knowledge and Receptions of the Past (edited with Kate Fisher, OUP 2015), Exemplary Ethics in Ancient Rome (CUP 2018) and Literature and Culture in the Roman Empire, 96-235. Cross-Cultural Interactions (edited with Alice König and James Uden, 2020).

She is the co-director of the Sexual Knowledge Unit (with Jana Funke, Ina Linge and Kate Fisher), and also of the award-winning Sex and History project which works with museums, schools, charities and young people to promote empowering discussion of contemporary sexual issues.

Research

Latin literature and Roman culture. Morality, exempla and heroic tales, especially the work of Valerius Maximus. Gender and sexuality in the ancient world. The reception of Classics from the Renaissance to the present day, particularly as it relates to the history of sexuality and the erotic.

Supervision

I would be happy to consider supervising postgraduate research in the following areas: Latin literature, popular ethics in ancient Rome, Roman exempla, ancient Roman sexuality or gender, Classical Reception and the history of sexuality.

Publications

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2023

Langlands R. (2023) 11 Seeming, Being and Exempla in Cicero’s De officiis 3, Cicero: De officiis, De Gruyter, 179-196, DOI:10.1515/9783110760194-013.
Langlands R. (2023) Seeming, Being and Exempla in Cicero's De officiis 3, Cicero: De officiis, De Gruyter, 179-196.
Langlands R. (2023) De Officiis and Exemplary Ethics, Cicero's ‘De Officiis' A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press, 119-138.
Langlands R. (2023) Sites of exemplarity and the challenge of accessing the cultural memory of the republic, Cultural Memory in Republican and Augustan Rome, Cambridge University Press, 261-280.

2022

Langlands R, Funke J, Fisher K, Linge K. (2022) Adventures in Digital and Public Humanities: Co-Producing Trans History Through Creative Collaboration, The Palgrave Handbook of Digital and Public Humanities, Springer Nature.

2021

Langlands R. (2021) Rules and the unruly: Roman exemplary ethics, Rules and Ethics Perspectives from Anthropology and History, 103-123.
Langlands R. (2021) Valerius Maximus’ Engagement with Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations on Virtue and the Endurance of Pain, in 3.3 De patientia, Reading by Example: Valerius Maximus and the Historiography of Exempla, Brill, 167-196.

2020

Langlands R. (2020) Literature and Culture in the Roman Empire, 96-235: Cross-Cultural Interactions, Cambridge University Press.
Langlands R. (2020) Literature and Culture in the Roman Empire, 96-235: Cross-Cultural Interactions, Cambridge University Press.

2018

Fisher K, Grove J, Langlands R. (2018) Erratum to: ‘Sex and History’: Talking Sex with Objects from the Past, The Palgrave Handbook of Sexuality Education, Springer Nature, e1-e1, DOI:10.1057/978-1-137-40033-8_34.
Langlands R. (2018) Extratextuality: Literary Interactions with Oral Culture and Exemplary Ethics, ROMAN LITERATURE UNDER NERVA,TRAJAN AND HADRIAN: Literary Interactions, AD 96–138, Cambridge University Press, 330-346.

2017

Funke J, Fisher K, Grove J, Langlands R. (2017) Illustrating Phallic Worship: Uses of Material Objects in Antiquarianism and Sexual Science, Word and Image.

2016

Fisher K, Langlands R. (2016) Scholars in Pursuit of Elusive Sexual Knowledge, WSQ Women's Studies Quarterly, volume 44, no. 3, pages 324-327, DOI:10.1353/wsq.2016.0064.
Grove JE, Langlands R, Fisher K. (2016) Sex and History: talking sex with objects from the past, Handbook of Sexuality Education, Palgrave.

2015

Langlands R. (2015) Roman exemplarity: Mediating between general and particular, Exemplarity and Singularity: Thinking through Particulars in Philosophy, Literature, and Law, 68-80.
Langlands R. (2015) From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity, AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, volume 120, no. 1, pages 172-174, DOI:10.1093/ahr/120.1.172. [PDF]
Fisher K, Langlands R. (2015) Bestiality in the Bay of Naples, Sex, Knowledge, and Receptions of the Past, OUP, DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199660513.003.0005.
Fisher K, Langlands R. (2015) Sex, Knowledge, and Receptions of the Past, Oxford University press, DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199660513.001.0001.

2014

Langlands R. (2014) Pliny’s “Role Models of Both Sexes”: Gender and Exemplarity in the Letters, Eugesta, volume 4, pages 1-24.
Langlands R. (2014) Exemplary Influences and Augustus' Pernicious Moral Legacy, Suetonius the Biographer Studies in Roman Lives, Oxford University Press, USA, 111-129.
Langlands R. (2014) Latin literature, Greece and Rome, volume 61, no. 1, pages 118-122, DOI:10.1017/S0017383513000284.

2013

Langlands R. (2013) Latin literature, Greece and Rome, volume 60, no. 2, pages 320-325, DOI:10.1017/S0017383513000132.
Langlands R. (2013) Latin literature, Greece and Rome, volume 60, no. 1, pages 159-166, DOI:10.1017/S0017383512000320.

2012

Langlands R. (2012) McLureL. K. and FaraoneC. A. (Eds), Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. Pp. x + 360. ISBN 0-2992-1314-5. £46.50/US$65.00, The Journal of Roman Studies, volume 97, no. 1, pages 279-281, DOI:10.1017/s0075435800015021.
Langlands R. (2012) A. Fraschetti (ed.), Roman Women (trans. L. Lappin). Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. vi + 249. ISBN 0-226-26093-3 (bound); 0-226-26094-1 (paper). £28.50 (bound); £13.00 (paper), The Journal of Roman Studies, volume 93, pages 309-310, DOI:10.2307/3184652.
Langlands R. (2012) J.-M. David (ed.), Valeurs et mémoire à Rome: Valère Maxime ou la vertu recomposée. Paris: de Boccard, 1998. Pp. 192. ISBN 2-7018-0119-2. Fr. 170, The Journal of Roman Studies, volume 94, pages 253-254, DOI:10.2307/4135074.

2011

Heath M, Langlands R, Constantakopoulou C, Liddel P, Levick B, Spivey N, Izzet V, Shorrock R. (2011) Subject reviews, Greece and Rome, volume 58, no. 2, pages 240-283.
Langlands R. (2011) Roman exempla and situation ethics: Valerius Maximus and Cicero de Officiis, Journal of Roman Studies, volume 101, pages 100-122, DOI:10.1017/S0075435811000116.
Langlands R. (2011) Latin Literature, GREECE & ROME, volume 58, no. 2, pages 246-255, DOI:10.1017/S0017383511000076. [PDF]
Langlands R. (2011) Roman exempla and situation ethics: Valerius Maximus and Cicero de Officiis, Journal of Roman Studies, volume 101, pages 1-23.
Langlands R. (2011) Latin Literature, Greece and Rome, volume 58, no. 1, pages 112-119, DOI:10.1017/S0017383510000562.
Fisher K, Langlands R. (2011) The Censorship Myth and the Secret Museum, Pompeii in the Public Imagination from its Rediscovery to Today, OUP, 301-315.

2010

Langlands R. (2010) L. K. McLure and C. A. Faraone (Eds), Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. Pp. x + 360. ISBN 0-2992-1314-5. £46.50/US$65.00, The Journal of Roman Studies, volume 97, pages 279-281, DOI:10.1017/s0075435800003488.
Langlands R, Fisher K. (2010) The Censorship Myth and the Secret Museum, Pompeii in the Popular Imagination from its Rediscovery to Today, Oxford University Press.

2009

Langlands, fisher. (2009) Historical erotica in Wellcome's collection, Wellcome History Magazine, volume 41.
Langlands R. (2009) Old for new, TLS - The Times Literary Supplement, no. 5531.
Fisher K, Langlands R. (2009) "This Way to the Red Light District": The Internet Generation Visits the Brothel in Pompeii, Classics For All: Reworking Antiquity in Mass Culture, Cambridge Scholars Press.

2008

Langlands R. (2008) ‘Reading for the moral’ in valerius maximus: The case of severitas, The Cambridge Classical Journal, volume 54, pages 160-187, DOI:10.1017/S1750270500000610.
Langlands R. (2008) "'Reading for the moral' in Valerius Maximus: the case of severitas", Cambridge Classical Journal, pages 160-187.

2006

Langlands R. (2006) Sexual morality in ancient Rome, DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511482823.
Langlands R. (2006) Sexual morality in ancient Rome, Cambridge University Press.

2004

Langlands R. (2004) A woman's influence on a Roman text: Marcia and Seneca, Womens Influence on Classical Civilization, Routledge, 115-126.

2002

Langlands R. (2002) Can you tell what it is yet? Descriptions of sex change in ancient literature, Ramus, volume 31, no. 1-2, pages 91-110.

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